Voices » cancer http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:01:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Why Apple’s Steve Jobs Doesn’t Matter Anymore http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090108/newmark/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090108/newmark/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:01:30 +0000 Evan Newmark http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=7432 By Evan Newmark, Writer, Wall Street Journal Online, Deal Journal

That was one kooky memo Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs sent out Monday. And it is hard to imagine anyone but him getting away with it. But when you are both a genius and a cancer survivor, many people are willing to cut you slack. Especially if you have created $80 billion or so of shareholder value. Overlooked in the whole brouhaha over Jobs’s health, however, is its most crucial fact: Steve Jobs just doesn’t really matter anymore.

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]]> http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090108/newmark/feed/ 0 Apple Has No Comment on Steve Jobs Health Rumors http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080612/apple-has-no-comment-on-steve-jobs-health-rumors/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080612/apple-has-no-comment-on-steve-jobs-health-rumors/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:35:23 +0000 Eric Savitz http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080612/apple-has-no-comment-on-steve-jobs-health-rumors/ By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s

A spokeswoman for Apple (AAPL) today said the company was not going to respond to rumors and speculation about the health of CEO Steve Jobs. Four years ago, Jobs had surgery for pancreatic cancer. The spokeswoman would not discuss speculation that he may have had a recurrence.

Concerns about Jobs cropped up on Monday following his keynote address at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. As I noted in a post on Tuesday, Jobs looked to some observers to be unusually thin.

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